“Either way they’ll be there for 30 to 60 minutes, so they’ll stop for breakfast or lunch or dinner.”Ĭristina Martini, Cache Creek’s chief financial officer, says that Tesla approached the village about installing the superchargers because of the village’s location on a major highway corridor. If they’re going on to Kamloops they’ll need a 25 or 30 per cent charge, and if they’re going north they’ll need as much as they can get. “When they come they’ll plan on having a meal there. “Tesla drivers won’t come to a place without Tesla chargers,” says Ashcroft resident Wayne Little.
Eight Tesla superchargers have been installed in Cache Creek, and a local Tesla owner says that the decision is “one hundred per cent forward-thinking” on the part of the village.